How Sex and Gender Impact Clinical Practice

An Evidence-Based Guide to Patient Care

Marjorie Jenkins, Connie Newman
Elsevier S&T
360 pages
ISBN: 978-0128165690
December 2020

How Sex and Gender Impact Clinical Practice: An Evidence-Based Guide to Patient Care provides a framework to enable primary care physicians to understand differences and better care for patients. Each chapter covers a subspecialty in medicine and discusses the influence of sex hormones on disease, along with sex and gender-based differences in clinical presentation, physical examination, laboratory results, treatment regimens, comorbidities and prognosis. A special chapter on communication differences between men and women assists clinicians in their conversations with patients.